St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-30
Where He Went Among the
Common People and OBJ
~. served Their Ways.
Some Suffering He Saw, But
Found Many Thriving
Families There.
His Ideas on the Home Rule
Observation-Disclosures
as 1t Exists.


Il have experienced great change
towards the Irish people,. said Mr..
Bole land think them undereStimated.
L understand the situation pretty
+ thoroughly, as | was. all over Ireland,
met the Irish members. Of parliament,
and saw the landlords and agentsAperc
|. sonally. | attended land league meet.
| ings, most notable being Oneat Brandon
| addressed by the famous Radical
Drummer and Cont aud Firth also En-
glish Radicals. | do not think the troubles
/ in Ireland so much a. question of gov
| eminent as an economic one. Fake
| for instance, the Marquis of, LanS.
| dOWne'S Cary estates. Perhaps i'll
| large number of acres there is a potato
| patch about the size of an ordinary
1 room: little distance further. on be-
tween the stones is another still smaller
one. This comprises their crops raised,
| and they depend on them merely. for
food. They depend entirely on the
| grazing to pay their rent, and they don't
pay much rent, either. In the spring
| they buy young cattle, craze them all
summer, and sell them fat at a profit.
| Thus they secure enough money to pay
+ their rent. This Writer they Were
+ Obliged to sell their cattle at; less than
| they paid in the spring, owing to the
| export beef from America and the Brit
| iSh colonies. The Irish landlords are
not hard at ALL | went over all the eS-
! tateS in the south of Ireland. The
| Duke of DevOnShire, father of the muir
! dered CayendiSh, is called good land
| lord by his tenants. Il. asked old and
young and they were, of one opinion re-
garding the duke. Even Oh the Mar
Quis of I,ansdOwne'S: estates. about
which. they have had so much trouble,
| the people say he is a fair landlord. as
/ many have not been evicted. This is.
OF course, at Cary. but on his Lycurgan
estates the people claim the marquis is
and a..
HAS BEEN CRUEL.
1.-The people OF Cary,y you see, are very
poor, and have no crops. The people
of Lycurgan have crops, and yet wanted
the same reduction OF rents as the resi-
dents of the Cary estates, who have
nothing but grazing to depend on. This
was refused and trouble resulted.
Il was much struck by the hospitality
Of the Irish all over Ireland. Their
hearts go right out to an American, and
they treat him like king. The minute
an American steps on Irish soil he is
spotted as an American, no matter
what his appearance is. L had
on British clothes. and yet in
spite of that | was known to be ali
American at once. | asked one man
what there was about an Americans ap-
pearance that gave him away, and he
replied that it was a sort of look that
made one think he owned everything
and an air of independence that said,
'IdOn't give d-n for anybony.' [
stopped one night with an evicted Irish
man. | wanted TO pay two half crowns,
but he wouldn't take cent, and so it
was with every house at which |
stopped. What think would help Ire
land far more than home rule
is this: GiadstOne'S home rule
bill does not contemplate
control of customs. Competition i'll
agricultural products with America and
the colonies is what is grinding Ireland,
and any home rule scheme that does
not include the control of customs will
be of no benefit to them. They want con-
troll of the customs. | did not fear
much suffering. Crops were good this
year and they have plenty to eat. Their
potato crop was the finest one for years.
| walked 132 miles in the south of Ire
land. and stopped, of course, at a good
many farm houses. The people live in
miserable shape. They have poor and
insufficient clothing and the floors of
their
HOT SIS AXE WEI AND
"They suffer from cold, but as far as food
is concerned they seem to have plenty.
They have flour bread. and by the way
Minneapolis and St. Louis flour is used
all over Ireland. They also have goats.
milk, eggs and potatoes. Their fuel
costs them nothing and is turf, dug
from the boys, though often theys use
manure. From Mall0w to Killarney
walked. They have poor facilities for
cooking, too. For instance, in baking
bread Il large pot is suspended over the
fire. The loaf is placed ill this pot and
over the top is placed more turf, which
is also set on fire. They are twenty
years behind America in farming. They
place greatoyalue OH manure and |
saw lots of women going
along the roads with baskets
picking it up, and although
they value it so highly they allow it to
lie in the front yard where the rain and
sun soon destroys its chief value. The
greatest restitution is-in Connemara.
There they depend largely on the fish
cries. / saw no evidence of suffering
any where else, though, of courss, they
have had wonderful famine and dis
treSs. | do not believe that any stranger.
English OF anybody else. if in Ireland
he acted with ordinary civifity and
common decency, would be moiested.
OF course, when man goes there and
aggrayateS the authorities they are go
ing to resent 1t.
Il was astOnisheti at the respect with
which | was treated. had lots of money
about NE and they thought 1 had
more than | really had. slept in lonely
| cabins where they could have stolen it
I as well as not, and yet was unframed
Il and never LOST penny. Furthermore.
thn nPincf told mo that | nppH fpQT
i such thing. A great MANY of them
K think their troubles are due to the way
K they are governed. One man told me
|, that Ireland contained an immense and
u ineXhauStable gold mine, but the British
!. would not allow them to work it. do
|. not believe that home rule will help
|; them much. They will pay their taxes
L just the same. The expense of govern
/: ing Ireland is not paid exclusively by
the rents, but is aided by money from
the imperial fund. They think that the
minute Ireland has home rule that pros
iperity will spring up
/. LIKE \ FLAME.
| Free trade will do them no good.
|. They are engaged in losing cause
when they attempt to compete with
America, etc. No wheat is raised there
at all. Much violence prevails. but it is
usually TO those who make themselves
obnoxious. The government, III trying
to put down land leaguism, makes
things hostile and is really making no
Roadway. ] am ScOtchman.
Il went there with high opinion of
the Scotch and a poor opinion of the
Irish. came back feeling that Scot
land is over-estimated and Ireland
underestimate. | would rather trust
myself in Ireland than in Scotland,
any time There Is a great change in
the Liberal front. and it is surprising
the number of Liberals that have gone
over to Mr.. Gladstone's policy. Ireland
will, in all probability, have home rule
a., al